Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take him then." The mayor appointed him the first full-time director of the Indianapolis human rights commission. Jones became increasingly embittered at the racism he encountered. His wife was spat upon while walking with their black child, and when one of his Korean children was killed in a car accident, he later said, he could find white undertaker to bury...
...memo, which was quickly leaked, to the budget cut ters at the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Harris, 54. the Illinois-born Pullman-car waiter's daughter who is the only black in the Cabinet, heatedly complained that the ceiling proposed by the OMB on her department's budget (currently $9.1 billion) was "barely defensible." If OMB had its way, she asserted, the subsidized housing program in the 1980 budget would not only be "socially regressive" but "unprecedentedly low" in comparison with previous Democratic and even Republican programs. It would...
Autos. The road ahead is pitted with potholes, even though European automakers this year expect to produce 11 million vehicles, just under their 1973 record of 11.25 million. The most imminent threat comes from the Japanese, whose share of the Western European car market has jumped from .6% to 6% in the past ten years. The Japanese onslaught has also hurt European export sales, especially in the U.S. For the longer run, the U.S. automakers may pose a more formidable danger, now that they are making smaller, gasoline-sparing cars of the type that sell well in Europe...
Just before last Christmas, a racing-car driver entered the museum-like sanctum of Tiffany & Co. in Manhattan to buy a diamond ring for himself. A clerk told him that such a purchase would be "vulgar" for a man. The driver argued: "I'm a customer, and your job is to give me what I want." Sniffed the clerk: "What you want is your business. What we sell is our business...
...attackers, described by police as three white males and one white female, repeatedly punched and kicked the student, knocking his head against a parked car before fleeing the scene, one witness said...